GNOME 3.3.2 Development Release Is Here

The GNOME Project announced a few minuntes ago, November 24th, the immediate availability for testing of the second development release of the upcoming GNOME 3.4 desktop environment, which brings assorted fixes and improvements.

GNOME 3.3.2 brings a new module (libgxps), and it updates the packages such as GConf, NetworkManager, Clutter, Empathy, Eye of GNOME, Epiphany, Evinve, Folks, glib2, glibmm, GTK+, Mutter, Pango or Gucharmap.

Main GNOME components were also updated in GNOME 3.3.2, including GNOME Bluetooth, GNOME Control Center, GNOME Desktop, GNOME Keyring, GNOME Session, GNOME Settings Daemon, GNOME System Monitor, GNOME themes and docs.

The GNOME-Shell interface received numerous fixes and improvements in areas like Message tray, Looking Glass, or Extension system. To view the entire changelog click here.

The next development release towards GNOME 3.4, will be GNOME 3.3.3 available on December 21st, 2011. The final release of GNOME 3.4 will be available on March 28th, 2012, followed by the first point release on April 18th, GNOME 3.4.1.

GNOME 3.4 Release Schedule:

· October 27th, 2011 - GNOME 3.3.1;
· November 24th, 2011 - GNOME 3.3.2;
· December 21st, 2011 - GNOME 3.3.3;
· January 18th, 2012 - GNOME 3.3.4;
· February 8th, 2012 - GNOME 3.3.5;
· February 22nd, 2012 - GNOME 3.3.90;
· March 7th, 2012 - GNOME 3.4 Beta;
· March 21st, 2012 - GNOME 3.4 RC;
· March 28th, 2012 - GNOME 3.4 Final release

Download the GNOME 3.3.2 source packages right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a development release and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended to be used for testing purposes only.